YOU get to be a Time Lord!

Revy · Post by **Revy** » 2008-07-23 08:06am

Good lord, I'm surprised no-one ever thought of the most obvious thing - opening up the Heart of the TARDIS would be somewhere at the top of my list. Total control over time and space, the ability to see all of time, the power to alter reality throughout all of time and space, and being able to disintigrate anyone that gets on your nerves? Really, what's not to like about that?

Sure, it might be a bit much for a human to handle, but I'm a Time Lord remember? I should be able to take it. Being damn near allmighty beats the crap out of being a time tourist or somesuch.

generator_g1 · Post by **generator_g1** » 2008-07-23 08:09am

Even a Time Lord cant handle the Heart of Tardis energies for long, that's why the 9th doctor regenerated into the tenth.

PeZook · Post by **PeZook** » 2008-07-23 08:17am

As my first act, I'd drop a crate of AK-47s and tons of ammunition into Warsaw on September 6th 1831. I'd then meet with a certain general Sowinski and instruct him on the power of these weapons, how to use them and where the attack would be coming from.

I don't actually need to do that, but I would - just to be a dick to Tsarist Russians

The real work would begin then, though. Uplifting!

I'd go back to somewhere around the fall of the Roman Empire, learn as much as possible about the politics of the period, and start meddling the fuck out of it. Introducing knowledge, fighting bigotry and hatred, etc.

I'd hope to jump-start the Englightement, then the Industrial Revolution. Then I guess I'd need to control the world further, so that we don't wipe ourselves out along the way. When I'm done, I out myself and become the Emperor Of Man.

What?

Revy · Post by **Revy** » 2008-07-23 08:19am

Actually, no - he regenerated because he gave up the energy of the vortex - he blew it back into the TARDIS. According to one of the Doctors (10th I believe) possessing the heart of the TARDIS power would make a Time Lord like a 'vengeful god', implying that he could handle it, but he wouldn't trust himself with such power.

Screw that, I'd trust myself with it. The old 'power corrupts' trope is way old and annoying to boot. I'd give it a go. If it turns out I cant handle it, then I get at least 12 regeneration cycles to make use of it, and that's assuming that a Time Lord really can't handle the vortex, and that I cant just make myself immortal the way Rose made Jack, and that I cant use my complete vision of the universe and all eternity to figure out some way of toughening my brain up to withstand the force of it all.

Patrick Degan · Post by **Patrick Degan** » 2008-07-23 01:17pm

Revy wrote:The old 'power corrupts' trope is way old and annoying to boot.

It's old, but in the real world has been borne out time after time after time.

His Divine Shadow · Post by **His Divine Shadow** » 2008-07-23 02:01pm

Oh yeah, I'd go back a couple of weeks and prevent my cat from being run over...

Dienonychus · Post by **Dienonychus** » 2008-07-24 08:50am

Not knowing much about the WHOverse and not much caring about the serious implications of Time Travel, I'd mess around. Change history here and there to watch its effects to the modern day. Being a fan of some fictions, I'd play 'god' in some instances to watch the 1632-verse come around, wonder if I can modify American history to keep its decentralized, small-government origins intact to this day (and its effect on world history).

I'd like to see if an Ayn Rand society could actually work (or what it would take to work)
I'm an L. Neil Smith fan so attempting to make The Probability Broach a reality would be fun to see and maybe, Roswell, Texas.

The Fyrdmen and Huscarls of Harold would win the day at Hastings and I'd watch the fun that might result with the full flowering of Anglo-Saxon culture.

I'd watch the building of the Pyramids, Machu Picchu, and many other great works of man. Discovering the origins of so many ancient mysteries would be worth so much more than mere money.

I'd study Biblical history up close, perhaps interact with many of the players, and hit around the world while doing it to compare happenings. I'd investigate some of what the Mahabarata (sp?)says, among other ancient tomes of wisdom.

Yeah, I'd meddle. That's what us curious types do.

PeZook · Post by **PeZook** » 2008-07-24 09:23am

Dienonychus wrote: I'd like to see if an Ayn Rand society could actually work (or what it would take to work)

A miracle?

Or not. It would probably work, just like feudal Europe worked somewhat.

Dienonychus wrote: I'm an L. Neil Smith fan so attempting to make The Probability Broach a reality would be fun to see and maybe, Roswell, Texas.

Good luck with that

Revy · Post by **Revy** » 2008-07-24 09:34am

Well if I stick to regular time travel, I'd probably go back and sit in on a bunch of Morecombe & Wise shows, and see Tommy Cooper. I'd meet Dr. Joseph Bell and maybe Conan Doyle. I'd travel back and meet Joan of Arc as well. If her voices really were heavenly, they'd know I was a time traveller, and that'd make for an interesting conversation. Eh, what else ... yeah, I'd take a bunch of video recording equipment and maybe a forensics kit, and visit all the supposed religious events and people mentioned in holy books like the Bible and the Koran, see if they really happened and record the actual events. Maybe I'd check out Elizabeth Bathory and Vlad the Impaler, see if they were as bad as the legends say.

Basically, I'd use the TARDIS to visit famous historical figures, kinda like the Doctor himself sometimes does. But without the alien drama, obviously.

Solauren · Post by **Solauren** » 2008-07-24 01:59pm

Questions;
#1 - Can I learn Time Lord technology? How extensive is the TARDIS's database?

#2 - Can it make me anything I want? Like say, a few Terminators? Robocops? Omega Supreme?

Assuming Yes, Complete. And Yes;

#1 -
Completely Catalog all of human history from the start of the last ice age. Complete genetic mapping, and make sure to get samples of any genes that die off that would be benificial to reintroduce to the genome.

#2 - Solve all crime that has occured. Possibly save anyone that has an unsolved disappearance.

#3 - In the background, using Terminator replacements and the like, slowly take over the world governments and industry.

#4 - Slowly upgrade the world to a higher tech level, while putting everything in place for me to take over it.

#5 - Once it's ready; I am the Emperor of the World, as well as local space time! MAHAHAHAH

#6 - Sell it all to the nearest alien civilization when I'm on my 12th life.

Post by **NecronLord** » 2008-07-24 02:19pm

Dienonychus wrote:Not knowing much about the WHOverse and not much caring about the serious implications of Time Travel, I'd mess around.

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The Fyrdmen and Huscarls of Harold would win the day at Hastings and I'd watch the fun that might result with the full flowering of Anglo-Saxon culture.

I'd watch the building of the Pyramids,
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Yeah, I'd meddle. That's what us curious types do.

Y'know, there was actually a canon time lord that did all this, known generally as the 'meddling monk' from his guise as a monk in northern england in 1066, where he planned to annihalate Harald Halradda's fleet with an atomic rocket.

Patrick Degan · Post by **Patrick Degan** » 2008-07-24 06:34pm

NecronLord wrote:
Patrick Degan wrote:
Drooling Iguana wrote:Does the TARDIS have any means to put yourself into stasis? Why not just bury it in a mountain then hibernate for a thousand years or so? That'll give you quite a bit of "future" to work with.
An alternative would be to fly the TARDIS outward at high relativistic velocities and let St. Einstein do the work of getting you into the future while you sit back and entertain yourself for a year or so, then slip back in time to the present you left and in that way pile up a lot of future to work within.
I expect it's immune to time dialation. The interior is a seperate dimension from the exterior.

Separate but connected. We have seen that the TARDIS interior can be affected by conditions outside the Ship ("Warrior's Gate", "Castrovalva", "Frontios"), so it may not be insulated from the effects of time dilation unless the Ship is specifically transiting the vortex or has fully activated its antigravitational fields.

Dienonychus · Post by **Dienonychus** » 2008-07-25 07:18am

NecronLord wrote:
Y'know, there was actually a canon time lord that did all this, known generally as the 'meddling monk' from his guise as a monk in northern england in 1066, where he planned to annihalate Harald Halradda's fleet with an atomic rocket.

No kidding? I might get into Who sometime then. I love history and always wondered what it would be if the bastard William hadn't won at Hastings.

Patrick Degan · Post by **Patrick Degan** » 2008-07-25 02:55pm

Dienonychus wrote:
NecronLord wrote:
Y'know, there was actually a canon time lord that did all this, known generally as the 'meddling monk' from his guise as a monk in northern england in 1066, where he planned to annihalate Harald Halradda's fleet with an atomic rocket.
No kidding? I might get into Who sometime then. I love history and always wondered what it would be if the bastard William hadn't won at Hastings.

Well, the Monk's idea (from "The Time Meddler") was that eliminating Harald Hadrada from the picture means that Harold Godwinson doesn't have to rush to beat off a Viking invasion at Stamford Bridge, and is able therefore to meet William, Duke of Normandy with a fresh army instead of a half-exhausted one. He wins at Hastings, England remains Saxon, and the Monk can then start introducing "improvements" into English history at various future points. As it was, Harold almost won at Hastings but for the bad luck of an arrow shaft piercing him through the eye when he looked upward, and William making one last, determined charge.